Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.

We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made us acutely aware, govern deeply the whole process of perception.

The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.

Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.